Wave on Business

Testing new technology like Wave is never easy. It requires a structured approach, so you can compare the usage of Wave with the usage of existing tools.

I’m not sure how often this is the case when making decisions for purchasing new software. Sometimes software is chosen based solely on a attractive Return on Investement (ROI) and then you choose it.

Some students from Aalborg University are going to have a session with a company, where they will experimenting with how wave can be used in a real life working situation.
It’s on Friday the 13th, so we hope everything will go according to the plan, without any scary problems

We are looking forward to the results of this experiment, and hope to share the findings with you.

The company in question is a publishing company, who are already used to using Google Apps for their internal and external collaboration. This means they are used to having online tools for collaborating like Google Docs.

The experiment will take a full day. There will first be an introduction to Wave by Tommy Dejbjerg Pedersen, so all participants know about the basics of wave. Then there will be three sessions with different experiments outlined below. Each session will last for an hour with an evaluation at end, to get some feedback.

First round

Can Wave be used to create prepare an idea. An author will contact the publisher and see if they can co-create an idea for the new book.

Second Round

Planning the book contents – what needs to be in the book ? Any specific themes, who will write it and so on.

The participants need to come up with a project plan for how the book can be created.

Third round

Can Wave be used to structure the content of the book.

Try to create the index, and create a draft of the structure of all the chapters.

Evaluations

During all the experiments the students, will try to poke and introduce new technologies and collaboration forms to see how the participants adopts them. After the day will the participants will be interviewed so the students can capture the experiences after the sessions and the participants view on Wave.

We are not sure how the much the employees have used Wave before the session, it will be most fun if they are mostly new to Wave.

If you have any ideas for how to help get better results of the experiment, please drop a comment, then it could be incorporated to the scenario.

Especially if there are any tools or ways to work, that the students should introduce into the experiment.

Image by *maya*

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